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Originally known as the Ataribox, the developers have finally revealed the official name for their latest console, the Atari VCS. A pair of controllers for the new gaming machine will be revealed during the upcoming Game Developers Conference and, next month, we'll finally get pre-order details for folks who are looking forward to introducing a new Atari console to their living room.

Just about every major game these days has a day one patch. Sea of Thieves also has a day one patch, but it's not the kind of patch that you're thinking about it, and it's already taken the community by storm.

Typically, when a game shuts down, all the intellectual property rights get stuffed into a vault, all of the assets get locked away, and all of the source code gets buried under legalese. What rarely ever happens is that the assets and content are handed out to the community for free. Well, Epic decided to buck the trend and hand out the assets for Paragon for free.

Sega has plans on bringing the beat-'em-up game Yakuza Kiwami 2 to the West for PlayStation 4 games later this year. The game originally came out in Japan not too long ago and now it's going through the painstaking localization process so it'll be ready for release later this year for Western gamers.

The release of Sea of Thieves is nearly upon us, and for gamers curious about getting their hands on the game without having to pay extra for it, there's a way to do so. In fact you can get a free copy of the game from retailers starting March 20th for the Xbox One.

Sega has finally decided to do something that almost everyone agrees is a good decision: give gamers more Sonic Mania. The breakout hit and highly lauded digital release of Sonic Mania last year has spurred Sega into action, and now Sonic Mania Plus is scheduled to release this summer for home consoles and PC.

Pokemon Go fans who missed out on Lugia, as well as those who simply want to add another legendary Pokemon to their collection, will want to log on and hit the streets in the coming weeks. Niantic has announced that the fan-favorite Lugia has returned to the game for a limited time.

Fortnite is coming to E3 2018 and its bringing 100 celebrities, professional athletes and top players along for the ride. They're calling the event the Fortnite Party Royale and, based on how popular the game has become in recent months, we imagine it's going to be pretty huge.

The U.K. isn't known for banning media. It's rare to hear about a piece of content being denied sale in the United Kingdom, and even rare that a video game is banned from sale in the country. Well, the U.K., just banned a game for the first time in over a decade.

One of the big selling points of most premium services these days is that there are free benefits thrown in to help improve the appeal of the subscription service. In the case of Amazon's Twitch Prime there are a bunch of free games being given away.

Sega's biggest franchise to date is still Sonic The Hedgehog. Despite having more missteps than hits with the blue speedster these days, Sega is still trucking onward and forward with new games and ideas, including a brand new racing title that hearkens back to the days of Sonic R.

Increasing accessibility for video games has been a target goal for many AAA publishers, including Sony, Ubisoft and Nintendo. Well, joining them is Electronic Arts, who has a new initiative to help make its titles more accessible to gamers.

Blizzard Entertainment revealed when gamers will finally be able to play as the newest hero for Overwatch. The character is currently available through the public-test realm, but soon she'll be available for everybody on the PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

Electronic Arts and DICE received lots of backlash over the implementation of the progression system in Star Wars: Battlefront II. The game was originally going to have a microtransaction-based premium loot box system, but EA scrapped it at the last minute. Well, EA and DICE are overhauling the system again and revealed how it was going to be done.

Venturing into a seldom explored corner of interactive entertainment, WarGames is a cross between a movie and a video game that invites the player to have an impact on the narrative by choosing where to focus each scene. It's an interesting concept, but the execution left me feeling less like a participant and more like a voyeur.

Twitch has been growing vastly in popularity since being acquired by Amazon over the last few years, but things have taken a drastic turn for the better after the rapper Drake hopped onto Twitch to check out Epic Games' Fortnite.